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CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia has $9 million left over from a federal broadband grant and is looking for ideas on how to spend the money. The state received a $126.3 million stimulus grant to expand high-speed Internet access to rural areas. Any money that isn’t spent by Jan. 31, 2013, will be returned to [...]
Continue reading …MARTINSBURG (AP) — The Berkeley County Roundhouse Authority is moving to settle old debts after securing a commercial lease agreement with the West Virginia National Guard. Authority board chairman Clarence Martin III says a recent $150,000 settlement with B&BT Bank will effectively cut that debt in half. Martin tells The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, Md., that [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — Republican Senate candidate John Raese filled in wetlands and damaged more than 2 miles of streams when he rerouted them to create waterfalls on a private, 18-hole West Virginia golf course that federal regulators say he built without the required permits. The years-long construction of Pikewood National Golf Club near Morgantown is [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — Emergency shelters across the state are feeling the effect of a statewide effort to reduce student truancy. More than half of a shelter’s beds are devoted to truancy cases since the West Virginia Supreme Court launched the initiative last year, said Steve Tuck, CEO of the Children’s Home Society, which operates 10 [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — Mayor Jim Manilla says Morgantown needs more police officers and firefighters to deal with street fires and other incidents following West Virginia University sports events, and the students should help pay the cost of hiring them. Manilla tells media outlets that he is considering asking the university to assess a $20 student [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — The state Board of Education has suspended without pay a child-care worker at the West Virginia School for the Blind charged in a sex abuse case. The board’s vote Thursday came three weeks after Hampshire County authorities charged 39-year-old Roger L. Sipple of Romney with eight counts of sexual abuse by a [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — With election day one month away, the United Mine Workers of America continues to sit out the presidential race for the first time in 40 years. On Friday, the typically Democratic-supporting union announced it’s backing Democrats in U.S. House and Senate races in 16 states, along with Republicans in two contests. But [...]
Continue reading …WHEELING (AP) — Chesapeake Appalachia has pleaded guilty to three violations of the federal Clean Water Act for destroying a Wetzel County waterfall while drilling a well near Proctor. U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld says Chesapeake will pay $600,000 in fines under the plea agreement entered Friday in U.S. District Court in Wheeling. Chesapeake pleaded guilty [...]
Continue reading …SOUTH CHARLESTON (AP) — A St. Albans angler has broken the record for the largest blue catfish caught in West Virginia. Division of Natural Resources director Frank Jezioro announced Mark Foster’s record-breaking catch Wednesday. He says Foster used cut bait to hook the 43.9-inch, 44.5-pound fish in the Ohio River, breaking his own 2011 record [...]
Continue reading …BERKELEY SPRINGS (AP) — The state’s planned expansion of Cacapon Resort State Park in Morgan County is moving forward. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin certified the project on Wednesday. The governor’s action will allow the West Virginia Economic Development Authority to sell bonds to help pay for the project. The project includes an 80-room addition with [...]
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